My Color Combo Passes WCAG – So Why Does It Still Hurt to Look At? (medium.com)

If white on black text causes any eye strain at all then you need to adjust your monitor, not make the text gray.

> Tools like APCA improve contrast modeling, but they still don’t account for halation, ambient light mismatch, or eye strain.

Doesn't APCA advocate a maximum contrast? Best link I could find right now is https://github.com/Myndex/SAPC-APCA/discussions/106 but it lacks explanation. If it doesn't account for the above, any ideas what APCA means by maximum contrast then and why the above was overlooked?